At 14:56 on April 19, Beijing time, on the fifth match day of the 2024 Macau ITTF Men's and Women's Singles World Cup, the 8-in-4 rounds were fully launched, and the four battles in the matinee were all decided.
On the previous match day, 16 into 8 rounds were played, losing Liang Jingkun (lost to Sweden's Carlberg), Lin Shidong (unfortunately reversed by Fan Zhendong in the derby), Wang Yidi (defeated by Zhang Benmeihe), Chen Xingtong (lost to Sun Yingsha in the derby) four players, 16 seats in the men's and women's singles quarterfinals, and there are still seven people left in the national table tennis; in terms of foreign associations, Japan is absolutely strong, with five people in the list; a lone seedling in Europe, Sweden Carlberg, and Adriana Diaz in the Americas fought alone; South Korea's first brother Zhang Yuzhen, Zheng Yijing, the Chinese provincial team, is also still in the battle sequence.
In the four games of the matine, there were shadows of the Japanese, first the Zhang brothers and sisters successively blocked the two representatives of Europe and the Americas from the semifinals;
The next two games are the battle between China and Japan, the men's singles national table tennis 35-year-old dragon team was resisted by Japan's 22-year-old Hayasuke Togami at the beginning, and successively fell behind 0-1 and 1-2.
Chen Meng and Miu Hirano are the only two World Cup champions in this Women's World Cup, Chen Meng is the 24th World Cup in Weihai, the home stadium in 2020, the defending champion, Miu Hirano in Philadelphia, USA in 2016, thanks to the withdrawal of China's Liu Shiwen and Zhu Yuling, all the way to the final to win the 20th World Cup, the runner-up at that time was Zheng Yijing, who also entered the quarterfinals this year. Chen Meng and Hirano have played eight times before, Chen Meng only lost one of the 2017 Asian Championships, and Miyu Hirano, who has rebounded recently, has defeated Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi, but Chen Meng won all the foreign wars, only losing the characteristics of the civil war, coupled with the thick offensive and defensive capabilities, Hirano won little, and the process of this game also confirmed everything, and the big dream swept 4-0.
A summary of the first four matches of the men's and women's singles in the 8-in-4 rounds of the 2nd matinee of the Macau ITTF World Cup
Men's singles finishes the first two matches
Tomokazu Chang 4:2 Anton Carlberg
Tomokazu Haramoto, 4-2 (9-11, 11-7, 9-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-4), defeated Sweden's Anton Carlberg to reach the semi-finals and face the winner of the national table tennis derby.
Marlon 4:2 Hayasuke Togami
Ma Long defeated Japan's Hayasuke Togami 4-2 (5-11, 11-5, 7-11, 11-7, 11-3, 11-3) and entered the semi-finals.
Women's singles finishes the first two matches
Zhang Benmei and 4:1 Diaz
Miwa Zhang reached the semi-finals with a 4-1 (11-3, 11-7, 11-2, 8-11, 11-8) victory over Puerto Rico's Adriana Diaz and awaits the winner of Wang Manyu and Hina Hayata.
Chen Meng 4:0 Miu Hirano
Chen Meng easily defeated Miu Hirano, Japan's only active singles world champion, 4-0 (11-5, 11-8, 11-9, 11-6), and advanced to the semi-finals, waiting for the winner between Sun Yingsha and Zheng Yijing.
The last four matches of the Macau ITTF World Cup men's and women's singles 8 into 4 rounds in the evening
Men's Singles
18:50 樊振东 vs 林高远
20:30 王楚钦 vs 张禹镇
Women's Singles
18:00 王曼昱 vs 早田希娜
19:40 孙颖莎 vs 郑怡静
Macau Men's World Cup real-time update of the draw form
Macau Women's World Cup real-time update form
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